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" Xaraudilla; but they were dear. The bread was indifferent, and nothing was good and abundant but chestnuts, the staple food of the people. But in a very few days the castle larder wanted for nothing. One day the count of Oropesa sent an offering of game... "
The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles the Fifth - Page 36
by sir William Stirling- Maxwell (9th bart.) - 1852 - 271 pages
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 2

1853 - 582 pages
...chestnuts the staple food of the people. But in a nrr few days the castle larder wanted for nothing. One &y the Count of Oropesa sent an offering of game ; another...day a pair of fat calves arrived from the Archbishop >t Zaragoza ; the Archbishop of Toledo and the Duchess <rf f rii- were constant and munificent in their...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 92

1853 - 566 pages
...to him as presents. Mutton, pork, and game were the provisions most easily obtained at Xarandilla ; but they were dear. The bread was indifferent, and...Archbishop of Toledo and the Duchess of Frias were const<uit and magnificent in their gifts of venison, fruit, and preserves, and supplies of all kinds...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 29

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...to him as presents. Mutton, pork, and game were the provisions most easily obtained at Xarandilla ; en apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear,...lines beginning — "I have seen a curious child," Archbishopof Zaragoza. The Archbishop of Toledo and the Duchess of Friae were constant and magnificent...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 92

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1853 - 576 pages
...the provisions most easily obtained at Xarandilla ; but they were dear. The bread was indifferent, ad nothing- was good and abundant but chestnuts, the...castle larder wanted for nothing. One day the Count of Oropeaa sent an offering of game ; another day a pair of fat calves arrived from the Archbishop of...
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Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, Volume 2

1858 - 330 pages
...to him as presents. Mutton, pork, and game were the provisions most easily obtained at Xarandilla; but they were dear. The bread was indifferent, and...calves arrived from the archbishop of Zaragoza; the 80 CLOISTER LIFE OF CHARLES THE FIFTH. archbishop of Toledo and the duchess of Frias were constant...
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A Treatise on Gout, Rheumatism and the Allied Affections

Peter Hood - 1871 - 446 pages
...to him as presents. Mutton, pork, and game were the provisions most easily obtained at Xarandilla ; but they were dear. The bread was indifferent, and...Oropesa sent an offering of game ; another day a pair * The count managed that they should reach Flanders in perfect condition by echandoles oien en la boca....
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History of the German Emperors and Their Contemporaries

Elizabeth Peake - 1874 - 600 pages
...dainties of all kinds were sent to him as presents. Mutton, pork, and game soon filled the castlelarder. One day the Count of Oropesa sent an offering of game;...pair of fat calves arrived from the Archbishop of Saragossa; the Archbishop of Toledo and the Duchess of Frias were constant in their gifts of venison,...
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A Treatise on Gout, Rheumatism and the Allied Affections

Peter Hood - 1879 - 518 pages
...to him as presents. Mutton, pork, and game were the provisions most easily obtained at Xarandilla ; but they were dear. The bread was indifferent, and...offering of game ; another day a pair of fat calves * The count managed that they should reach Flanders in perfect condition by echandoles oien en la boca....
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 7-8

Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pages
...to him as presents. Mutton, pork, and game wen1 the p ovisions most easily obtained at Xarandilla; but they were dear. The bread was. indifferent, and nothing was good and nbunda&t hut chestnut" the staple food of the people. But in a very few days the castle larder wanted...
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